The present assiette 'a cordonnet' was probably part of the first dinner and dessert service produced at the Vincennes factory, which was purchased by Madame de Pompadour on 12 March 1753. The assiette 'à cordonnet' shape ('braided plate') was first recorded at Vincennes in October 1752 and kiln records suggest that the various components of this service were fired in 1752. Rosalind Savill discusses the numerous purchases made by Madame de Pompadour at this time, noting that this was the first service to be made at the Vincennes factory where both the dinner and dessert wares had 'matching' decoration, see Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, Norwich, 2021, Vol. I, pp. 278-279. This dessert service comprised 36 assiettes 'à cordonnet', at a cost of 21 livres each. Other dessert components included: sucriers, plateaux, compotiers and seaux of several different types, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the Eighteenth Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, Vol. II, p. 269. All of these items would have matched a punch bowl and mortar that Madame de Pompadour had purchased in December 1752; each decorated with simple flower-sprays and insects. Madame de Pompadour's numerous purchases during this period were delivered in three consignments, with the dinner and dessert service, punch bowl and mortar appearing in the Sales Registers on 12 March 1753.

Today, only a small number of items from this service are recorded, including an assiette 'à cordonnet' of similar type to the present lot, in a private collection, see Savill, Ibid., Norwich, 2021, p. 282, fig. 10.8. Savill suggests that other than two assiettes 'à cordonnet', of which the present lot is one, only the mortar and a tureen 'Saxe' (without a stand) are known.

Other Vincennes assiettes 'a cordonnet' of the same early production period are known, including two sets of eleven plates painted with dark blue borders and bouquets of flowers in the centre, which were were sold in these Rooms, on 20 May 1955, lots 59 & 60. A similar plate is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (C.86-1973) and Joanna Gwilt illustrates another example and discusses others of this type, see Vincennes and Early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection, London, 2013. no. 97, pp. 162-3. Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis illustrate an assiette 'à cordonnet' of circa 1752, decorated with a putto en camaïeu rose, see La Porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 2004, cat. no. 122, p. 154.